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Topic: looking for a way to simplify crediting stock providers when using DeviantART (Read 2013 times)

I am an artist, unfortunately of the starving variety. Ifrequently download and use stock images from deviantart.com to usefor reference, but it usually requires credits and a link back tothe page that the image was downloaded from or the user's profilepage. In order to make this somewhat easier on myself I generallydownload the image and then save a link to the page as a file inwindows 8.1 and rename it to match the name of the image so that Ican easily find the page again later when I need to find theinformation to credit the stock creator. I am wondering if there isa way anyone can think of using any of the tools here, Firefoxplugins or anything that could further simplify this process includingother approaches which might work better.

Anyhow, nothing urgent obviously, just thought I would ask. Iknow there are tools to download entire galleries which is great,but doesn't really help with my particular problem of needing toprovide links back to the parent page (not the image itself).Ideally if I could just download an image off of DeviantART someprogram would parse the information and download the images, creatematching named link and place them in a sub-folder generated by theartist's user name. Or even use a robot to rip an entire gallery ata time in the same fashion. Which of course would be useful if Iliked more images than not in a given gallery.

Sorry for the stream of consciousness question. I hope it is clearenough to understand and thank you very much for taking the time to read it.

Yes, and that's not far from what I do... except that I title the shortcut to the page the same as the image so that I can match them easily. However, even though it's a simple task... it can get awfully tedious, and adds a lot of time if you are collecting a lot of reference images.

Yes, and that's not far from what I do... except that I title the shortcut to the page the same as the image so that I can match them easily. However, even though it's a simple task... it can get awfully tedious, and adds a lot of time if you are collecting a lot of reference images.